ANG LEE - FEW SURPRISES AMONG OSCAR WINNERS

Except for the victory of Crash in the best film category, all other votes went pretty much as expected. Ang Lee received the award for best director even though his film, Brokeback Mountain, was passed over for best film. Crash also received awards for best adapted screenplay (Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry) and for best score (Gustavo Santaolalla). Philip Seymour Hoffman won the best actor award for his performance in the title role of Capote. Reese Witherspoon won the best actress award for her performance as June Carter Cash in the Johnny Cash bio, Walk the Line. George Clooney, who was nominated in three categories for two different films, Syriana and Good Night, and Good Luck, won the best supporting actor Oscar for Syriana. ("If the evening seemed to belong to anybody, it belonged to the one-time TV doctor who must now be considered one of the film industry's ruling figures," wrote Ty Burr in the Boston Globe.) Rachel Weisz took the supporting actress award for her part in The Constant Gardener. Crash also won Oscars for best original screenplay (Paul Haggis and Bobby Moresco) and for editing (Hughes Winborne.)

06/03/2006